If the idea of this thread is what’s missing, then there are two missing actions, I noticed;

lack of locking the laptop, when the lid is closed

Suspend is not the same as when you open the lid, the laptop is on, without asking for the password.

not having an app to adjust the notification of the percentage of the battery critical lowest level of the laptop.

Not every laptop has a absolutely new battery, so standard 10% is not enough. Most laptops have the ability of shutting down, if the battery goes down to certain level of the physical battery it has. There is, of course, a workaround, but not every user (most standard user) knows it, or knows how to get it done. Mine is a 5 year old laptop and I’ve put the low level to to 18% using the workaround found in the Arch Wiki, so I can plug in the power and keep on working.

New Elementary icons and the really modern looking project Muffin (=Notebookbar) will be ready for Disco.

Firefox 66
This will not be Disco only, but will come to Cosmic and the LTS as well:
The CSD with the tabs within the titlebar will be turned on by default in Firefox 66. It is the default on WIndows and MacOS already and Linux will now follow suit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490344

Wayland will be easier to test soon as you just need to set an env to enable it.

This will be an interesting one for Disco: Ubuntu always deviated from upstream by patching out the PCR2 support for regular expressions. The reason for that was that PCRE2 was not shipped in main.

That changed now and Ubuntu could finally drop that delta. Gnome-terminal now supports regular expressions as it is supposed to.

Gnome-terminal 3.31.xx is not yet in Ubuntu but will finally sport real headerbars with client side decorations and a hamburger menu. It will not NOT move the tab-bar to the header though (at least for now).

With all those layout changes, chances are that @3v1n0 will have to adapt his scrollbar patch for Unity/Ambiance. Let’s hope that he can make his patch conditional to Ambiance only so that it doesn’t push the scrollbar out of bounds for GNOME/Yaru anymore.

Olivier Tilloy recently opened a Trello card for LibreOffice 6.2. So this is going to be packaged up for Ubuntu soon: https://trello.com/c/VCJXTSpR

And the first packages of GNOME 3.32 hit the Disco repos (in its beta 3.31.90 incarnation) : gedit, gedit-plugins, simple-scan (should probably be renamed to GNOME-scan in the future?) and some of the games that ship with GNOME: Quadrapassel, Tetravex, Mahjong and Tali.

Other more complex packages will follow suit. With GNOME-Shell and Mutter being notoriously a bit late being tagged for the (pre) release. And thus often being late in being packaged.

Simple-Scan
That’s the simple-scan changelog for this cycle so far (besides translations):

simple-scan 3.31.90

Support non-standard Epson ADF scanner options

simple-scan 3.31.2

Use Gtk.FileChooserNative for save dialog so works in sandboxed environments

Now the decision was made and Allan Day clarified: Just the apps lose their possibility to render content to the menu. The menu itself will stay (including the app name the app icon) and the menu will offer the same options that context menu in the app grid offers.

I think that this is a sensible choice because I see that most apps didn’t make use of the app-menu at all and people didn’t search for additional app-functionality there. The chosen solution still lets us see which app has focus.

This solution made its way to the master branch now and will hit the Ubuntu repos in some days (or weeks).

The most visible change in gnome-shell and gdm will be that they are going for probably a bit bigger, round and borderless avatar pictures. In the top bar menu (where you can choose to quit GNOME, disconnect WiFi) the log off avatar will be replaced by a symbolic icon. A good choice IMHO.

Mutter and Gnome-shell 3.31.90 (=Beta 1) are currently hitting the repos. I am curious if those are rather stable already or crashy.

The Ubuntu dock had to be updated as well because there was a lot of under the hood reshuffling of code in the shell and in mutter. To gain some performance and to separate more and more codepaths between Wayland and X.

On a side note: Plymouth 0.9.4 is in the repos as well now. Now technically a flicker-free boot experience could be possible now. I hope that the Ubuntu team will tackle that for Ubuntu 19.10 like Fedora did for 3.30. Even if that means that we would have to go away from the all purple and shiny, boot splash to a more conservative “logo on a black background” approach again.